| BACKALOSER | Return gangster to Rose devastated by bookmaker's preferred advice (4,1,5) |
| NASTURTIUM | Easy-to-grow plant with edible flowers, often used as a pest-controlling companion to roses and vegetables; or, the Latin name of watercress (10) |
| THEBOERWAR | A brother we found devastated by conflict (3,4,3) |
| CAMELCORPS | British river crops devastated by desert force (5,5) |
| CANTERBURY | City devastated by a current (10) |
| PUERTORICO | Island devastated by 2017's Hurricane Maria |
| WORLDTRADE | The complex of New York buildings devastated by terrorist attack in 2001, The ... Center (5,5) |
| TICTAC | Tactics used by bookmakers to signal at the track (3-3) |
| SETTLING | Name the day used by bookmakers to close accounts (8) |
| BINDINGCONTRACT | Obligatory document signed by bookmakers? (7,8) |
| PAGES | Young attendants used by bookmakers (5) |
| ODDS | Probability of something happening, especially used by bookmakers (4) |
| TICKTACK | Credit is given on the nail by bookmakers' telegraph (4-4) |
| AUTHOR | Her work is bound to be read by bookmaker (6) |
| LOOKALIKE | Call to gangster to observe president's image |
| THUG | Gangster to pull in by force of arms, under arrest finally |
| ALEPOLE | Welcome sign for thirsty traveller, gangster to run off to the north |
| ALLODDS | Most unexpectedly opposing everything offered by bookmaker (7,3,4) |
| AGAINST | Most unexpectedly opposing everything offered by bookmaker (7,3,4) |
| CORNMEAL | Ingestible powder in magazine seized by bookmaker |
